Appearances in Eastern Maine championship soccer games are becoming commonplace for Coach Bob Dyer’s Katahdin Cougars of Sherman Station. Katahdin has made it to the EM final in Classes C and D (Katahdin moved to Class D with reclassification in 1989) each of the last… Read More
    You won’t see the word “finesse” used to describe the University of Maine hockey team’s fourth line, which features Dave LaCouture between Steve Widmeyer and Steve Tepper. But that’s not to say they don’t have an important role. Just ask Lake Superior State Coach Jeff… Read More
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    ORONO – Ah, preseason. There are two roads that basketball teams seem to take during the preseason. There are the smooth roads – the expressways and interstates – where everything flows quickly and smoothly leading up to the opening tap of the regular season. And… Read More
    The Madison Bulldogs are two victories away from capturing their third consecutive Class C football state championship. Yet, the road toward the state game has not been as smooth as in past years for Coach Carl Rudman’s squad, which is 6-3. The Bulldogs hope to… Read More
    Confident but not cocky. That may be the best way to describe the 1990 edition of the York Wildcats, the Class B Western Maine champs in schoolboy soccer. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More
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    PITTSFIELD – Helping hands freely offered are a mainstay of fall sports here in Maine, especially as the season winds down and cold, damp weather settles in. One has to respect the willing cooperation of high school athletic department personnel who find themselves participating in… Read More
    It will certainly not be your typical Top Seed vs. Eighth Seed playoff game. The Colby College Mules are 12-0-2 and top-seeded for the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III New England Soccer Tournament, but the team they drew is none other than the archrival… Read More
    After a 1-4 start in September, most Yankee Conference football watchers had written off Boston University, whose run-and-shoot offense under first-year head coach Dan Allen more often then not wound up shooting the Terriers in the foot. But a funny thing happened in October while… Read More
    The records of the Class A teams in Wednesday’s Eastern Maine field hockey final were incorrectly published. Cony of Augusta has a 15-1-1 mark and Nokomis of Newport is 16-1. Read More
    The 1990 high school girls soccer campaign became one of redemption for the Richmond Bobcats after they defeated Buckfield last weekend in the Western Maine Class D championship game. The victory avenged last season’s loss to Buckfield in the Western Maine title game and put… Read More
    NEW YORK – Joan Benoit Samuelson, desperately seeking to regain the form that made her the 1984 Olympic gold medalist and the American record-holder for the women’s marathon, has withdrawn from Sunday’s New York City Marathon because of injuries. “It’s very disappointing, because I had… Read More
    Soccer 1990 Eastern Maine Soccer Playoffs SATURDAY, Oct. 27 Class A Boys Regional Final Brunswick 1, Waterville 0, 1 p.m. (4OT, 4 pen. kicks) Class A Girls Regional Final googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
    For Staff Predictions see Library Microfilm. The final week of the 25th season of the NEWS Football Forecast is at hand and the championship remains undecided. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
    WATERVILLE – Martha Hopkins earned her ninth shutout of the season as the Thomas College Terriers advanced to the NAIA District 5 women’s soccer final with a 2-0 victory over the University of Maine-Farmington Thursday. Hopkins stopped 7 of 15 shots. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
    FORT KENT — Sen. Raynold Theriault, D-Fort Kent, and Wanda Towns of Van Buren are seeking the Maine Senate District 1 seat, which comprises Caswell, Fort Kent, Frenchville, Grand Isle, Hamlin, Limestone, Madawaska, New Canada, New Sweden, St. Agatha, Stockholm, Van Buren and Wallagrass, Cyr and Woodland Plantations,… Read More
    Don’t worry Joe. Jock is not really running against you. It took me a while to figure this obviously confused man out but I have him pegged now. He’s running against Mike Dukakis. He keeps saying how much better he could run Massachusetts. So, I’ll give him the… Read More
    As Neil Rolde continues to bombard the media with cries of national health care for everyone, it is time to take a hard look at the office for which he and Bill Cohen are running. The United States Senate is an institution designed to make… Read More
    I’m so tired of the commercial about voting “yes” on the blue law because people want the freedom to shop on Sundays. Well, excuse me, but what about the freedom of the ones who don’t want it? Namely, the ones who have to work on Sunday, if it… Read More
    …From both political parties, men and women have emerged in the Pine Tree State to speak on our behalf at the center of world power. They have done so with integrity, intelligence, dignity, and courageous independence. Several have risen to become significant national leaders. It… Read More
    I want to register my astonishment and disillusionment at the crude and highly offensive tactics adopted by the Bangor Republican City Committee to advance the candidacy of N. Laurence Willey Jr. for the Maine Senate. The yellow-and-white sleaze sheet that many of us received in Wednesday’s mail offers… Read More
    It has been our policy to be non-partisan in political matters. However, it is appropriate at this time to acknowledge the great assistance recently given Eastern Fine Paper Inc. by Rep. Richard Ruhlin. Eastern is the only pulp customer of Lincoln Pulp and Paper who,… Read More
    It has often been said that the nature of a community is reflected in how it treats its least fortunate members. Then, Bangor’s past record in community health is a reason to be proud. The recent report from the budget advisory sub-committee on Public Health, Safety, and Welfare… Read More
    As chairman of the Orono Town Council, I would like to provide background information on the Orono recall amendment being discussed by the Town Council. On Aug. 13, the Town Council was presented a petition to “demand that the said Town of Orono amend its… Read More
    I am writing to urge Bangor residents to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 6, and to elect N. Laurence Willey Jr. to the Maine Senate. I have been closely associated with Larry Willey for more than 12 years in a number of projects. I can authoritatively attest to his… Read More
    …After all of the campaigning is all over, the opponent of the opposite party will come out and shake hands with his opponent and encourage us, the public, to give to him our total support to that person in office, whomever he might be. But what will there… Read More
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    Our sincere thanks to Marshall Frankel and the community for their strong support of the MAINEiacs. During the initial implementation of Operation Desert Shield, the 101st Air Refueling Wing was heavily tasked. The requirements necessitated a continuous 24-hour operation. The response from the community was excellent. Read More
    Bob Haskell’s tongue-in-check piece on the candidates for Register of Deeds in the Oct. 17 edition of Midweek was delightful. But on a more serious level it’s reassuring that the system works well enough to attract good, young candidates. Ann C. Dowd is a bright… Read More
    …The blue law that prohibited Sunday sales was probably well intended for the 18th century. But over the years, the intent of the law has been diluted and the law is no longer effective or meaningful for the lives we lead today. To assume that we do not… Read More
    In 1987, Maine residents made a wise choise, and voted for a bond issue allowing acquisition of lands for recreation and wildlife habitat. With the support of local citizens and grassroots groups all over the state, Mainers protected a part of their heritage forever. Now… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE — Three full-blown races for the Maine House of Representatives will be featured in central Aroostook County on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, with six candidates’ names on the ballot. Two other House districts in the area each will see the name of… Read More
    MADAWASKA — Two Madawaska residents, Rep. Edward McHenry, D-Madawaska, and Republican Jacqueline Dumais, are seeking the House of Representatives District 149 seat, which represents residents of Grand Isle, Madawaska, Perham, Wade and Westmanland, and the unorganized territories of Guerette, Madawaska Lake and Sinclair, in next week’s election. Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE — Edward J. Wilson Jr., 22, of New Sweden was arrested Wednesday by state police and charged with robbery in connection with the beating of Clayton Fortin of Van Buren on Oct. 13, near a rest area in Caribou, according to state police Detective John Dyer. Read More
    FORT KENT — The following cases were heard Wednesday, Oct. 31, by Judge Ronald A. Daigle in 1st District Court at Fort Kent. Kevin Swimm, 22, Houlton, three counts of forgery, bench warrant issued for failure to appear for sentencing. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
    ASHLAND — A 26-year-old Ashland woman, Lynn Morneault, is scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 28 in 2nd District Court at Presque Isle after arrest at her Bushey Street residence Tuesday, Oct. 30, on a charge of theft of $1,093 from a night deposit being delivered to the local… Read More
    HARRINGTON — The SAD 37 board of directors Wednesday approved overnight trips by both of the varsity basketball teams at Narraguagus High School. The boys team will stay overnight Nov. 23 in Milo, and the girls team Dec. 26 in North Anson. The directors also approved a trip… Read More
    JONESBORO — Rep. Theone Look, R-Jonesboro, said Thursday that she had been advised that the planned change in the lobster measure would not be made Jan. 1, 1991, as previously scheduled by the New England Fisheries Management Advisory Commission. The law was intended to increase the minimum legal… Read More
    MACHIAS — Obscured from view by the world outside the University of Maine’s science building is a $90,000 basement-construction project that will be ready in January to boost the quality of education for students of environmental studies and biology. The new Marine Education and Resource… Read More
    Halloween around Cobscook Bay ranged from “beautiful” in Pleasant Point to “general mayhem” in Lubec, with Eastport falling somewhere in between, local police report. Pleasant Point Police Lt. Christopher Tinker said the scariest night of the year was “just beautiful. Everyone had fun, kids and… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Judy Raymond, R-Dover-Foxcroft, is a candidate for the position of registrar of probate in Piscataquis County. She is unopposed for the position. Raymond was selected over four other candidates who sought the nomination from the Piscataquis County Republican Party to fill the vacancy… Read More
    KOKADJO — Two retired biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife were recognized Thursday when the Roach River Wildlife Management Area in Kokadjo was dedicated to them. The new wildlife management area was created to protect the Roach River, a pristine river… Read More
    SANGERVILLE — Priscilla P. Bolduc, R-Sangerville, is seeking re-election as register of deeds for Piscataquis County. She is unopposed for the position. Bolduc has worked in the deeds office since 1984 and was elected register in 1986. She was born and educated in Dover-Foxcroft. Read More
    MILO — The 88 seventh-graders at the Penquis Valley Middle School in Milo have completed an interdisciplinary project titled “Pioneers.” During the five-week project, the pupils had an opportunity to explore different subject areas while using skills being taught in the classroom. A total of… Read More
    MILO — Penquis Valley Middle School boys and girls soccer team participants were honored Tuesday at the annual Fall Sports Recognition Night. Paul Grindle, athletic director, served as master of ceremonies. During the awards program, 27 participants received letters, 11 members received pins and one… Read More
    MILLINOCKET — Seven sticks of old dynamite were uncovered at a Georgia-Pacific Co. construction project site at the Stone Dam in Millinocket Thursday. Before the discovery, an employee with the construction firm doing the repair work suffered minor burns to his hand when a small… Read More
    NEWPORT — Six SAD 48 communities in mid-Maine will have an additional local referendum question on their Nov. 6 ballots that would change the current form of voting on the school budget. Mirroring a similar issue in SAD 54 in Skowhegan, SAD 48 voters will be asked:… Read More
    SKOWHEGAN — MMC, the firm hired by Skowhegan to do the property revaluation, will start visiting the following roads on Monday, Nov. 5: Waterville, East River, Red Oak Drive, Canaan, Lambert, Swain Hill, Oak Pond and Eaton Mountain Roads. The personnel that will be visiting… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Two divorces were granted on the grounds of irreconcilable marital differences recently in 13th District Court. They were as follows: Darlene C. Dow and Wayne D. Dow, both of Dover-Foxcroft. The court awarded shared parental rights and responsibilities of minor child. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — Fuel assistance applications for people age 60 and older will be taken at the Pittsfield Town Office from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, by Judy Blanchard of Senior Spectrum. For more information contact Senior Spectrum or Kennebec Valley Community Action Program. Read More
    WINSLOW — State Sen. Zachary Matthews, D-Winslow, on Thursday blasted his Republican opponent, Rene Laliberty, for allegedly accepting contributions from a political action committee that is largely financed by an Alabama-based professional strikebreaking firm. The firm of BE&K imported hundreds of replacement workers to take the jobs of… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — Fall sports awards were presented to six teams Tuesday night at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield. Awards included plaques, trophies, letters and certificates of participation. In cross country, Kristi Byron was named Most Valuable Player, Gretchen Voter was named Most Improved Player, and… Read More
    DEXTER — The First Universalist Church School children presented the Oct. 28 service at the First Universalist Church in Dexter along with Jim Bunn, Valerie Albertini and Carol Kaufman. Lila Cobb was pianist, and children were Noel Buschman, Kristin Gilbert, Anastasia Kaufman, Erica Kaufman, Ken Bernier, Hilary Lister,… Read More
    PITTSFIELD — An evening that began as a game of beat-the-clock ultimately became a get-out-the-vote rally as 17 political candidates or their representatives spoke in Pittsfield on Thursday night. Local legislative candidate Mark Brooks, a Republican running for the District 101 seat previously held by… Read More
    ROCKLAND — The death of Maine State Prison inmate Larry L. Richardson occurred “right under the guards’ noses” in the prison segregation unit March 6, defense attorney Thomas Connolly said Thursday in Knox County Superior Court during a hearing on preliminary motions. Charged with Richardson’s… Read More
    FARMINGTON — Emerging leaders in private business, local and state government, education and non-profit organizations will be receiving help in learning to be more effective in their communities, jobs and life through a series of programs being offered by the Western Mountains Alliance, The Rural Leaders’ Forum. Read More
    THOMASTON — Town Manager William Judson announced Thursday that the town would issue building permits for four home construction sites in the Sawyerville development. The town had declined to issue the permits on the assumption that it would violate a consent decree with the Department of Environmental Protection… Read More
    ISLESBORO — Town Manager Scott Seabury told selectmen at a recent meeting that Islesboro’s solid-waste committee had met and was studying recycling proposals. The town has received a grant for construction of a recycling building, and a building committee has met to discuss contracts. Seabury… Read More
    ROCKLAND — The following warranty deeds have been recorded with the Knox County Register of Deeds: Jennie E. Wentworth, Appleton, land and buildings in Appleton to David C. Flanagan, Appleton. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
    BELFAST — Four years have passed since SAD 34 proposed replacing the venerable Crosby School with a modern middle school. Throughout that period the issue has swirled through the streets like chicken feathers did in the days when Belfast was the “Broiler Capitol of the World.”… Read More
    TOWN HILL — “Greenspirit,” a workshop using the 12-step model of Alcoholics Anonymous and other recovery programs to increase ecological awareness, will be held Friday through Sunday, Nov. 16-18, at the Whole Health Center. Albert LaChance, an activist on ecology and substance-abuse issues, will speak… Read More
    CHARLESTON — A Charleston man who had been trapped in an 8-foot-deep ditch for nearly an hour early Thursday morning was treated at Eastern Maine Medical Center and released. Donald Berry, 66, apparently had been working on the foundation for a restaurant on Bull Hill… Read More
    Orono police arrested two Bangor women Wednesday afternoon and said they may have tapped into a shoplifting ring working in the Greater Bangor area. Detective Sgt. Forrest Davis of the Orono Police Department said Lisa Levesque, 20, of 152 Third St. and Lillian Rouse, 21,… Read More
    Timothy B. Richardson, the former Penobscot County sheriff who hopes to regain the job, was cleared Thursday of any wrongdoing for distributing frozen french fries from an overturned tractor-trailer to local charities. The Department of Agriculture looked into the situation Wednesday amid conflicting accounts of… Read More
    Running for a seat on the Bangor City Council costs more every year. On average, candidates spent 10.5 percent more this year on their campaigns. The cost of living during the first nine months of 1990 has risen 5.3 percent. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
    U.S. House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt made a brief visit in Maine Thursday to stump for the state’s top-of-the-ticket Democratic candidates, declaring his party to be the ally of middle-income taxpayers. Gephardt appeared at a Portland breakfast with gubernatorial candidate Joseph E. Brennan, U.S. Senate… Read More
    An employee for F.R. LaFayette Inc. reported that someone broke into a storage building at Bangor International Airport. A Yamaha generator valued at $1,000 was stolen from the building, police reported. Cleophe Revelle , 45, Portland, was arrested at 2 a.m. Thursday at Eastern Maine… Read More
    AUGUSTA — State tax officials, urging delinquent taxpayers to “get to us before we get to you,” on Thursday unveiled the one-time tax amnesty program they hope will net $15 million or more of badly needed tax dollars. “This is the first phase in Maine’s… Read More
    From the start of my campaign, I knew that I was the underdog candidate and knew that the battle to win this election was clearly up hill, so to see your newspaper support my opponent was not surprising. What has surprised me though, is the… Read More
    ROCKPORT — The P.E.O. Sisterhood will charter 29 groups in four northeastern states Friday and Saturday, Nov. 2 and 3, as more than 300 of the sisterhood meet at the Samoset Resort. The Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont groups will be designated the… Read More
    AUBURN — A 25-year-old man pleaded innocent Thursday to murder and robbery charges in the slaying of a clerk at a convenience store during a police stakeout, and his attorney said he wanted the trial held in another town. Henry Guay of Lewiston was indicted… Read More
    Over the past several months in the campaign for governor, I have offered to the voters a comprehensive program for Maine’s future. I have proposed to jump start the Maine economy by speeding state construction projects; to rebuild the Main Streets of our cities and towns; to construct… Read More
    WASHINGTON — Military construction projects in Kittery and Bangor are slated to receive a total of $46 million from an appropriations bill Congress passed last week. Topping the list is a $38.2 million project for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery to modernize and enclose… Read More
    PORTLAND — A Piscataquis County man was cleared of assault charges Thursday when the state supreme court ruled he had been a victim of double jeopardy — being tried twice for the same crime. Harold Derby was charged July 21, 1987, with assaulting a 14-year-old… Read More
    If Thursday’s mock election at Bangor’s Fairmount School is an accurate predictor of the statewide vote Nov. 6, incumbent Republicans will sweep the ticket and stores will open for Sunday sales. Fourth- and fifth-graders at the elementary school decided that Gov. John R. McKernan should… Read More
    AUGUSTA — Nearly half of those questioned in a Capitol News Service survey this week support passage of the $20,250,000 corrections bond issue, a major shift in public opinion in the three weeks since the previous CNS survey. Of the 674 respondents to the telephone… Read More
    The Wildman is coming to a forest near you. No matter that you haven’t met one yet. You will recognize him immediately by the rolling thunder of his primitive drums, the throaty gargle of his cry, and his unabashed flow of tears. He is different… Read More
    Between the ages of 13 and 17, Karen Milliken was “hell on wheels” for her parents, James and Charlene Milliken of Eddington. Emotionally disturbed, Karen ran away from home 17 times in a 19-month period, spent six months in the Maine Youth Center, lived in… Read More
    Question No. 6: Shall a bond issue be authorized in the amount of $20,250,000 to build, purchase, plan and renovate correctional facilities and to study future operation needs? THOMASTON — Approving a $20.3 million bond issue for construction and renovation of correctional facilities in the… Read More
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    PORTLAND — The One Bancorp, parent company of Maine Savings Bank, said Wednesday that its common stock no longer will be listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers’ Automated Quotation system. The troubled bank company said it was dropped from the NASDAQ because its… Read More
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    In what appears to be a dead-heat race for governor, newspaper publishers and their editorial writers seem as split on whom to pick as the public. Both candidates, Joseph E. Brennan, the Democrat seeking to return to the job he held from 1978-1986, and John… Read More
    The Railbird Some racing entities heard good news and some did not at Augusta on Monday as the 1991 race-date hearings of the Maine State Harness Racing Commission began. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
    Bangor voters have 10 questions on the municipal ballot. Although all of them deserve careful consideration, most are essentially municipal housekeeping measures endorsed by the commission that reviewed the city charter. Only Question 1 and Question 10 have been the subject of controversy. Some of the high points:… Read More
    The slowing economy has eroded the profitability of many Maine financial institutions, but Bangor Savings Bank continues to defy the trend. The bank reported net earnings of $2.4 million for the six months ending Sept. 30, a 23-percent increase from the same period last year. Read More